Latin

Alternative forms

• pelax

Noun

pilax m ‎(genitive pilācis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) a cat

Declension

Third declension.

Synonyms

• (a cat): cattus, fēlēs, mūriceps, mūrilegus

References

• PILAX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• “pilax” on page 797/2 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)